Good news: inseminations resume at the clinique ovo on Monday, May 2!

It will be possible to announce your day 1 on our website from Monday, May 2nd.

Here is the full statement from clinique ovo:

In this National Infertility Awareness Week, you will find below a press release from the AFQ which once again challenges the Minister Delegate Carmant and the other actors involved in order to intervene to promote the success of the Quebec Medically Assisted Procreation Program, promised for a long time.

Indeed, it is imperative that the government make a full program public, so that Quebec families and patients who want children are taken care of from start to finish in this process.

On our side and in order to promote accessibility to care for our patients, be informed that the clinique ovo has decided, during this week of infertility awareness, to offer insemination services from Monday, May 2 in under the public program, despite the current underfunding, while asking the Minister Delegate to fulfill his commitments to ensure the sustainability of this public program.

AFQ press release:

During this National Infertility Awareness Week, we should all have welcomed the implementation of Quebec's long-promised Medically Assisted Procreation Program. Unfortunately, given the deplorable way in which Minister Carmant managed this public program, this is not the case.

Indeed, the reform of the assisted procreation program carried out by the Minister Delegate Lionel Carmant is neither done nor to be done. After having had to fight for a resumption of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in barely acceptable conditions, fertologists and their patients are still affected by various problems that persist and affect full accessibility to medically assisted procreation care.

Remember that the minister had severely underfunded IVF services and that it was only after a tough battle for our patients that he finally recognized his mistake and increased the required funding by 70%. Unfortunately, and despite our hopes and our efforts over the past two months, the Minister is delaying the correction of the funding of intrauterine inseminations when his error in this file is even more flagrant, having reduced the fees for these services by nearly 40% before the implementation of the new program.

During this National Infertility Awareness Week, the AFQ is once again asking the Minister Delegate to do what is necessary for patients and to intervene to provide them with the level of care they deserve. We ask the AOGQ and the FSMQ to work with the government and with the AFQ to make this public program work as intended for patients. It is imperative that the government make a full program public, so that Quebec families and patients who want children are taken care of from start to finish in this process.